Posted on 12/19/2007 2:40:07 PM PST by wintertime
“”In 2002 the SBCs Council on Family Life reported that roughly 88% of our children leave the church within 2 years after graduating from high school.”
Maybe they moved...
“Research by Dr. Brian Ray, founder of NHERI, found that 94% of all homeschooled children retained their faith into adulthood.”
These stats are incongruous...
So, I take it, you are a Christian teacher who has been working in public schools.
It's worth noting that Catholics in this country already exposed all the flaws of this country's public school system more than a hundred years ago.
Nothing's really changed since then, eh?
I hate to say I am giving up on the US education system but it does seem hopeless.
Teaching in a public school is a sin? Alriiiiiiiighty then. I think I’ll jump off of this discussion at this point. Our views are just too divergent to find the common ground to even disagree.
Each individual should follow the leading of the Lord as to the course and direction of his life. That leading should only be by the Holy Spirit in conjunction with one's knowledge of the Word. Perhaps there will be a time when the Spirit of God leads all believers, teachers and students, to leave the public schools, but it is presumptuous for one believer to tell another believer what God's directive will is.
Even the great reformer, Luther, worked within the very evil and apostate Catholic Church until circumstances forced him out. That brings up another issue. Should an Evangelical believer work at a Catholic school which has chapel services teaching doctrines pernicious to his fundamental faith? Oddly enough, I believe the answer is yes -- if the Spirit guides the believer in that direction..
Will you broaden the scope of what you are asking of believing teachers to include an injunction for believers to leave all lines of work involving businesses which have policies that are secular-liberal or to the left (eg. Apple, Oracle, Disney, Fortune 500).
From what I have observed, Christians aren’t tolerated very well in public schools, being that the majority of the administrators and other teachers tend to be politically correct left-leaning liberals. They don’t tolerate down to earth people very well. The Christian Teachers tend to get weeded out early in their careers as a result.
Public schools - as schools - are simply obsolete. It is a 19th century paradigm that was wearing thin at the end of the 20th century. It is not only no longer necessary, but does more harm than good.
Use the OVER $10,000 per student per year and give their family a $500 computer, a free monthly high speed internet connection, curriculum options, and then leave it in the hands of the parents like God intended.
“All government schools are Anti-Christian, and if you are paying dues to the NEA you are further pounding nails into the spriritual coffin of our nation’s children.”
Dear Mr. Shortt, you’re full of it.
Thanks for the suggestion. That’s not a bad idea. I’ll pass it on. Maryxxx
My husband and his best friend attended a Catholic High School in Syracuse, CBA I think, and boy, there was no discipline problem there. Father Michael wasn’t afraid to put fist to nose when kids needed discipline. I’m sure he had to do it only once. They were very afraid...
Y' think?
Local churches need to start their own schools. Unfortunately, not everyone is equipped or motivated to homeschool.
Discipline works!
Private schools are wonderful if you can afford them!
Home schooling is also wonderful if the parents are equipped and sincere.
From what I have observed, Christians arent tolerated very well in public schools, being that the majority of the administrators and other teachers tend to be politically correct left-leaning liberals.
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I live in a rural area of a red state. Here, teachers need to conform ( at least outwardly) to the standards of the community. However....Even here I believe that Christian teachers should abandon the government schools.
1) It is impossible to have a religiously neutral school. If Christ is scrubbed from the classroom and textbooks, something **will** fill that vacuum. It may be agnosticism, new-ageism, global warming earth worship, paganism, atheism, Marxism, or a combination of some or all of these or other philosophies. When the Christian teacher agrees to suppress Christianity, unavoidably he or she will promote and nurture a non-Christian worldview in his or her students.
2) The Christian teacher is teaching his or her students to compartimentalize religion. Somehow religion is OK for the home and on Sunday, but not OK in the workplace or school. She or he is also falsely teaching the student that Christianity can be put away for a more “convenient” time. Even his or her presence as an employee in the government school models this false philosophy since he or she must be silent and/or very careful about speaking about Christ.
3) Teaching in the government schools is, in a way, by his behavior a form of denying the witness of the Holy Ghost. The Christian teacher **knows** that Christ’s mission and message are true, but suppresses and hides this knowledge from his students. He does not confidently proclaim his testimony to his students at appropriate times during his lessons.( I am reminded of Peter denying that he knew Christ 3 times before the cock crowed.)
It is impossible for a Christian teacher to be true to Christianity and the secular mission of the government schools. He must be a liar to one or the other.
I’ve tried to bow out of this once, to no avail. Lady, I can’t begin to tell you how far out you are on this one, so I’m not going to try, so let me reiterate: We don’t even have enough common ground here to even disagree. Consequently it must follow that we’ll never find the commonality to agree on anything that even touches the periphery of this subject.
Well, that’s about the stupidest suggestion I’ve ever seen in my entire Christian life. Imagine if St. Paul or the other early evangelists had followed this idiotic advice.
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